#werewolf: the Forsaken

[manyworldsofdarkness]

Official desktop backgrounds from the old White Wolf website.

[nightmareworks]

hi i've been working on a werewolf the forsaken character and here's all the drabbles i've done about her

Missy McCoy looks maybe tweny-five, somewhere thereabouts, and maybe five foot eight on a good day. She's got boots stained with mud and worse, her jeans are as beat to hell as the biker jacket she's got, a tank top hangs loose underneath. Missy's got this smile she's famous for, rarely takes it off, a wide razor-blade grin that dances back and forth from friendly to fiendish depending on the glitter in her green eyes. Talks with a drawl, thick and from somewhere deep in the American south. Taking her all together, adding the guitar across her back, she looks like a fairly put together version of many an itinerant musician that roam about America with a dream and probably a half-dead liver (Hers is fine, by the by). 'Jesus, the girl knows a lot of murder ballads.' is the most common review of Missy's performance in dingy bars and run-down roadhouses. The pounding of her stomps in lieu of drums, the twang of the guitar, the howling croon of her voice- it has an effect on people. Especially when her specialty is digging up old folk-songs about monsters and murders and cannibals, and tying them to more recent events, a layered story of tragedy and blood. Every song is a warning, about what comes when one trespasses past where men were meant to stand. Missy don't care one way or the other what lessons people take from her music, its goal is not so much to educate, as to foreshadow the deaths that follow in her wake.

Now you meet Missy in the woods, you see that well-toned woman and her razor-blade smile. She tells you that you ain't meant to be here, that this ain't no place for men. There's only monsters. Think to yourself maybe she's just some drunk who followed you from the bar, out to this dark and primeval stretch of loblolly pines outside of Hattiesburg. And you're gonna cuss her out, pick a fight-

And then her smile keeps getting wider. You can hear the bones creak and snap and grind together in her body, hear the tendons snap like rubber-bands and the tearing sounds of muscle wriggling free from its mooring. See her open up her mouth, the muzzle of some great beast forcing its way between her lips. Her skin near explodes from the forces at work on it, long strips of bloody flesh bursting against the muscle and bone that build up the prodigious size of the beast, matting the fur with her own blood. A canine nightmare bays for your soul, wearing its own shed skin like fluttering ribbons, stalking forward with talons at the ready. Hands flex. Teeth clack. The Hunt begins.

[the-gamling-dog]

When a garou gets hayfever, do the others see the punishment of Gaia at work and judge/ostracise them?

[crimsonmoonberserker]

I love Werewolf: the Forsaken.

As the title says, I love Werewolf: the Forsaken, especially 2e but I started with 1e back in high school. I was fist introduced to it through an admittedly shitty Naruto crossover fanfic, but I loved the concept a lot.

For me, 2e does the game so much better in terms of lore and mechanics. I love the concept of the Sacred Hunt, the tribes having their own unique preferences for prey, the auspices having their own Hunter's Aspects, the ways Gifts are handled, the rites are now more thematically appropriate, and the Idigam are all such cool concepts.

One of my favorite things to do is take preexisting fictional characters and turn them into werewolves, work out their tribe, if they fit one; their potential auspice; their Gifts; their merits; and even change things around to see how it would affect their character story.

My favorite attempt at this was making Emiya Shirou from Fate/Stay Night into an eldritch abomination of a werewolf, more so than other werewolves.

[defilerwyrm]

an apoc fan right?

so what do you think of werewolf the forsaken?

and have you heard d of Nagual the ingited?

You know it! My first tattoo (way back in 2002) was the Black Spiral Dancers tribe glyph :D

I didn't care much for Forsaken. I don't recall much of it but I remember getting the distinct impression that it was a bid to steer the type of RP that people did with the game in a specific direction that, in me experience, was not really what actual players were doing with W:TA.

In particular, I got the impression that they found out that furries loved W:TA and got big mad/embarrassed about it and tried to drive them off. It was honestly kinda funny.

I think given a fresh look, with the right group it maybe could be a lot of fun because I do adore horror TTRPGs. I just know I didn't like it much at first glance.

Haven't heard of Nagual; still have to Google that one!

[songoftrillium]

what do you think of werewolf the forsaken

When I consider any one system to use for gaming, I often will look for a building point for me to find narrative inspiration from which I'll build my story. While specific system mechanics are key to being able to run a cohesive game, I find the story component to be really my make-or-break on whether I try out a particular game system or setting. I remember hearing about Forsaken back during a gamer preview period and being really interested in the changes to attributes and feeling really positive about it. And then, I read the book, learned about the tribes, and got about 2/3rd of the way through before I found myself uninspired to find a story in it. There was a game preview event happening and I couldn't find real inspiration to build a character for that either, and in terms of my own involvement, that's where it ended! Granted, this is a game that's now old enough to vote, and despite my ignorance of the game, it's managed to build a large following of it's own through not one but two editions. To call it a fad or a failure would be disingenuous on my part and I welcome their players to my table. It's also not entirely beyond me that a large portion of those who would be playing the 5th edition of Werewolf are themselves coming to it from Forsaken, and that the game will need to be relatable to not just me, but them and hunter/vampire 5th edition players as well. In a manner of speaking, it makes for a crowded table, but that's a good kinda problem!

[polkanight]

🙃 some Cibele censoring

(another old one, 2014ish)

[manyworldsofdarkness]

Remember fellow Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Werewolf: The Forsaken players. Wolves are not dog sized

[manyworldsofdarkness]

To all fans of World of Darkness, Chronicles of Darkness and anything else by White Wolf and Onyx Path. This here is a fan server for both veterans and people interested in learning WoD lore, a fun inclusive server open to everyone with an interest in any of the games! Come talk about your characters, post fan art, discuss the games you want to play or your favorite editions and make some like minded friends who also happened to be obsessed with psychotic monsters.

We’re hoping to spread info about World of Darkness all over tumblr so more of you self proclaimed monster fuckers can get on in this.

[suminotomi]

Wata, the Thyrsus mage.

[the-gamling-dog]

an rpg that crosses Werewolf: The Forsaken with A Court of Fey and Flowers. Call it Faeral.

[clericalerror87]

This is some Werewolf: The Forsaken posting.

brb trying this

[probablybadrpgideas]

Werewolves can turn into a wolf.

Until they reach Primal Urge 5, they can't turn back

[historyfan9784]

World of Darkness is in like the real world according to lore, so you can throw it into any fictional world you like. Gravity Falls? There's now a vampire in Roadkill County Oregon. Red Dead Redemption? You can throw a self-insert werewolf into the gang.

[bekandrew]

this but a cross-splat game in Chronicles of Darkness with Deviant: the Renegades and Werewolf: the Forsaken

Werewolf best friend who has the super heightened sense of smell thing like a medical alert dog and just occasionally turns to you and goes "hey you gotta sit down im gonna go get you your seizure meds real quick"

[enddaysengine]

Sketch of a horrible little cigarette spirit I did the other day. While it is in no way polished, it is one of my favourite recents, not in the least because it went from idea to art in under an hour.